Roof framing.....

This week it has been more detail framing --- the master bath has some complicated walls and those are done. The dormers are complete, and a significant portion of the roof sheathing is on. There has been an area connecting the main body of the house and the bonus room and the kitchen that Nick and I could not understand. When the roof started to go on, we thought it was going to be a disaster, but this week the lightbulb went on and we could finally "get it." The bonus room looks especially cool this week because it has all kinds of beams coming in at crazy angles and the room is big and bright. We are tempted to keep it one big open room, vs. the small finished playroom and the roughed in bathroom and a large unfinished room. But, we are realizing part of the reason it looks especially cool is because the roofing plywood is not covering all of the ceiling, so it feels particularly bright and airy! Once they close it up, it will not be so awesome, so we might as well stick to the plan. Nick is really questioning the rough-plumbing of a bathroom for that area...and truthfully we will likely never need / want a bathroom there, but if we did, the plumbing would be difficult to get up there at a later date.

It is all looking very cool.... we think they'll pretty much get it "under roof" this coming week, though they haven't started on the circular porch ---- that will be interesting! We are realizing that while we intend for that to be a vaulted ceiling, we are not sure if the plans reflect that.... we don't have that detail page. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it is already that way in the plan, and if not, hopefully it won't be a disaster to change!

Hopefully by Thanksgiving week we'll see some shingles and metal roofing starting to be installed (though I'm not sure when the metal roofing goes on -- -do the porch skylights need to be installed first.... probably).

Also, once the entire roof structure and plywood are complete, we'll be able to tell if the house is dark, or not bad.

I went to Ikea this week to look at some stuff. I have always thought we'll put one of their sofas in the kids playroom (inexpensive). Anyway, the denim slipcover was discontinued.... darn.... but I was in luck, they had a "last chance bin" and the slipcovers were marked down from $149 to $9.99... what luck! My storage in this house for things in the next house is getting out of control! I asked Lloyd to make a lock room for us in the new house once drywall goes on for all of the things I have purchased for the new house. No problem he said, but I need it NOW!!

That is about it, we are enjoying going out there and poking around.... I was showing Nick some fabrics and window treatment ideas. He said, "this would all be so much easier if we could wait for the house to be finished and then I could just hold them up to see...." WHAT, is he crazy? Doesn't he know the planning is most of the fun! At least he pretends to look at my drawings.... so far!